This study investigates burnout and work engagement in layoff survivors. Layoff survivors are defined as individuals who remain working at organizations that have recently had layoffs. Job demands (job insecurity and work overload) and job and personal resources (social support, optimism, career adaptability, and career management self-efficacy)…

This study investigated the influence of background variables (age, race/ethnicity, mother's work status outside of the home, and socioeconomic status), personal variables (anticipatory role conflict and academic self-efficacy), and environmental variables (parental attachment and parental support) on aspects of adolescent girls' career planning.…

This qualitative study examines factors that influence the career decisions of dislocated workers. The research focuses on individuals identified as working class, as this group has been relatively ignored in past research compared to individuals from higher socioeconomic statuses. Participants include 13 individuals (10 females and 3 males)…

Workplace bullying is a significant problem in many adult work settings. Much of the research has been conducted by organizational psychologists. It is important for vocational scholars and practitioners to be knowledgeable about the phenomena of workplace bullying, as they are in a position to contribute to the literature base and to counsel…

Goodyear, Wertheimer, Cypers, and Rosemond refine Ronnestad and Skovholt's counselor development model and some of its implications. Fouad's reaction to the articles in this issue describes how counselors' careers develop and the implications for training. Contains 16 and 9 references respectively. (SK)

A study determined that women who choose a traditional career (1) do not differ in sex-role orientation; (2) do not differ in the importance they place on specific work values; and (3) show an interaction between sex-role orientation and work values such that some work values are clearly associated with different sex-role orientations. (JOW)